After the major raid in the “Reichsbürger” milieu on December 7, there are five other suspects, according to the federal prosecutor. The searches on Wednesday are related to this, as a spokeswoman for the Karlsruhe authority said on request.
The five people are suspected of supporting a terrorist organization. They are from Munich, the Hanover region, Chemnitz and Switzerland.
It also said: “On behalf of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, searches of more than 20 objects in a total of eight federal states and in Switzerland began this morning.” The premises of 14 non-suspects were also searched.
During a search in Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, the person concerned fired at least one shot. The person has been arrested for the time being.
The federal prosecutor is investigating against the shooter, among other things, on suspicion of attempted murder. The man who had been a witness until then had been waiting for the police officers in the living room with a large-caliber gun, and then there was an exchange of fire in which a police officer was hit on the arm, the Karlsruhe authorities said on Wednesday.
“He did not follow the repeated request to put the gun down,” the statement said. The man finally surrendered and was arrested for the time being. He was to be brought before the magistrate on Wednesday at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe.
According to dpa information, the man is a sports shooter and had a license to own weapons.
As the German Press Agency learned from security circles, one police officer and one member of the Bundeswehr are among the 19 people whose premises the police searched on Wednesday morning. According to reports, the two do not belong to the group of five suspects.
According to reports, in addition to Bavaria, Lower Saxony and Saxony, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and North Rhine-Westphalia were also affected.
According to information from the German Press Agency, six objects in the area of three police headquarters in Bavaria were searched: Lower Franconia, Munich and Upper Bavaria South.
In Lower Saxony, an object in the Hanover area was affected, as a spokesman for the local Ministry of the Interior said. There was also a search in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, according to security circles.
Searches also in Switzerland
In connection with the raid in the “Reichsbürger” milieu, house searches were also carried out in Switzerland on Wednesday. The federal prosecutor’s office in Bern announced that criminal proceedings had been opened against two people.
There is a suspicion of support or involvement in a criminal or terrorist organization. “The clarification of the alleged roles and intentions of the accused is the subject of the ongoing investigation,” said the federal prosecutor.
The German Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office also made requests for legal assistance that “either have already been completed or are currently being implemented,” the Swiss Federal Prosecutor’s Office further announced.
Legal assistance may include interrogation of witnesses or suspects and extradition of detainees. At the political level, there has been a debate for years about how extremists can be disarmed more quickly.
In December, the police and the federal prosecutor’s office deployed several thousand forces against a suspected network of Reich citizens. They are said to have planned a violent coup.
25 people were arrested and are in custody. Among them is the Frankfurt businessman Heinrich XIII. Prince Reuss, the alleged head of the network, as well as the former AfD member of the Bundestag and judge Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, who has been suspended for the time being. (dpa, AFP)
To home page
Source: Tagesspiegel
I have been working in the news website industry for over 4 years now, first as a reporter and then as an editor. I enjoy writing about politics news and am also an author. I try to cover a lot of different angles when it comes to my articles so that readers can get a well-rounded understanding of the story.
